Blog facilitation!

• Academic staff can post course notices and course related news items in their blogs.
• Academic staff can organise seminars and in class discussion though their blog. The discussion question is posted on the staff blog and students debate this question using the comments facility.
• Academic staff can provide records of their own research activity as reference material for students.
• Academic staff can provide opinions on published research in your field as a continually updated reading list with summaries.
• Academic staff can provide discussions of course related topics linking to topical stories that illustrate real-world implications.
• Building an frequently asked questions resource. Students can use the comment facility to pubicly ask questions of the staff member. The staff member can also use the comments facility to answer so providing the answer to the whole class of students.

Source : http://www.sddu.leeds.ac.uk/online_resources/blogging/applications.html